Quotes About Desire

Everything I desire is within me.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.